#490 - Qiujia Village, the terrifying mummy

"Are you saying that in Linzhou, in the past few months, people in some rural areas have been mysteriously disappearing from time to time?"

In the courtyard of the inn, Lu Qing was somewhat surprised after listening to Mu Tian and the others' account.

"Yes, brother, this matter was originally not noticed by anyone.

However, a few days ago, when we first entered Linzhou, we accidentally saved a farmer who had fallen off a cliff and lost consciousness.

He said that people in their village had been disappearing frequently recently, and now everyone is panicking.

His wife and children had disappeared, and he was running around looking for them, eventually accidentally falling off a cliff.

Fortunately, he was stopped by an old tree, so he wasn't killed.

After we sent the farmer to the clinic, we went to the village where he was to investigate.

As a result, we discovered that in the countryside of Linzhou, in the past six months, many villages have had people disappearing.

It is precisely because of this that we are staying here, wanting to find out what exactly happened.

And today we plan to go to a place near the city called Qiujia Village."

"There's such a thing, then have you found anything?" Lu Qing asked.

"Not too many clues yet." At this time, Mu Tian shook his head, "We can only initially determine that this matter is man-made, not a natural disaster.

And the person who did it has strange and secretive methods, not a righteous person.

The greatest possibility is that some evil cultivator is practicing some evil art."

"Evil cultivator..."

Lu Qing nodded, agreeing with Mu Tian's deduction.

With the continuous recovery of spiritual energy, many relics from the previous era of cultivation are gradually being revealed.

Among them, many are left by cultivators who practiced the evil ways of ancient times.

Therefore, in recent years, some evil cultivators have appeared in the world.

These evil cultivators have done many outrageous things in order to practice evil arts.

However, since ancient times, good and evil have been incompatible, and these cultivators, after making waves for a while, were met with a joint purge by the major sects.

After enjoying the limelight for two years, they almost disappeared again.

Unexpectedly, in this remote Linzhou, there are traces of evil cultivators appearing again.

"Then, is there anything special about the Qiujia Village you are going to?" Lu Qing continued to ask.

"We heard that in Qiujia Village, two villagers had just disappeared the day before yesterday. This is probably the most recent village where that evil cultivator has appeared, so we plan to go and take a look," Mu Tian replied.

If he went with them, perhaps they could find out something, who knows.

Lu Qing pondered for a moment.

Originally, he came this time to take Xiao Yan and the others away.

He had just traded three portions of true blood from the old dragon turtle. Those three portions of true blood containing the bloodline of the ancient exotic beast Suanni should be of great benefit to Xiao Li and the Five Elements.

Now, suddenly hearing such a thing, he felt that it was not good to leave directly.

After thinking for a while, Lu Qing said, "Alright, I'll go with you to take a look."

Xiao Yan's eyes lit up immediately.

But Lu Qing then said, "But Xiao Yan, this is your training. I won't easily take action unless it's absolutely necessary. You have to solve things yourself, so that brother can see if you have been slacking off in your cultivation these days."

"Okay!"

Xiao Yan agreed without hesitation.

At the same time, her heart was full of energy.

She wanted to let her brother know that during his seclusion in the Holy Mountain these days, she had also been working hard to cultivate!

Mu Tian and the others also showed smiles on their faces after hearing this.

According to what they had learned from the sect's records, the methods of evil cultivators have always been strange. With Xiao Yan's brother, such a mysterious powerhouse, going with them, they would have more confidence.

So, next, everyone checked out of the inn and headed to Qiujia Village.

Qiujia Village was not close to the city, but among the group, the weakest in cultivation was also a cultivator in the early stage of the Innate Realm.

Before the recovery of spiritual energy, that was comparable to the combat power of a top-tier sect.

Even after the spiritual energy has recovered for so long, the Innate Realm is still considered a powerhouse in the cultivation world.

Their pace was naturally not slow.

After using their movement techniques, their speed was even faster. Half an hour later, everyone arrived in front of a village.

"Senior Brother Chen, Qiujia Village is ahead."

Mu Tian took out a map, looked at it for a while, and said affirmatively.

"Then let's go in."

Lu Qing looked ahead, a trace of imperceptible strangeness flashing in his eyes.

Could it be that they really stumbled upon it?

The group walked towards the village, and were stunned by the scene before them as soon as they entered the village.

The village was previously silent, with wisps of black gas floating around.

Most importantly, there were many corpses lying scattered on the village road.

They were all in the shape of dried corpses, and their faces were twisted and ferocious, obviously having suffered great pain and torment before their deaths.

"This, this..."

Mu Tian and the others were immediately frightened and retreated repeatedly upon seeing such a terrifying scene.

They couldn't even speak clearly for a moment.

Lu Qing couldn't help but shake his head at the sight.

The recovery of spiritual energy has made cultivation much easier.

Even the Innate Realm is not as difficult to break through as it once was.

But similarly, the ease of cultivation has also caused many cultivators to lack sufficient experience.

Just like Mu Tian and the others, although their strength is not weak, before the recovery of spiritual energy, they were comparable to the top combat power of some large sects.

But in terms of mental state, that was far too lacking.

Just some dried corpses with unsightly deaths were enough to scare them like this.

This composure was far inferior to those Acquired Realm martial arts masters he had encountered before.

After sighing slightly in his heart, Lu Qing turned his gaze to the dried corpses in front of him.

Just now, outside the village, he had sensed that this village was in a state of deathly silence, as if there was no one left.

But he also didn't expect that the people in this Qiujia Village had all been murdered.

And they were still killed after being drained of their essence, qi, and spirit, and suffering greatly.

Looking at one of the dried corpses wearing a woman's clothes, still holding a small corpse in her arms.

Lu Qing's gaze slowly turned cold.

"Brother, this is..."

Among the group, Xiao Yan still maintained her composure.

After all, when she was very young, when Lu Qing and the others went to Zhongzhou together.

During the battles and killings along the way, she had seen countless corpses.

And in these years in Jiuli Village, she often helped the old doctor treat some patients' wounds.

Although the scene in front of her was frightening, it was not enough to scare her.

"I said, I won't take action. You have to learn to deal with these things yourself," Lu Qing said indifferently.

As soon as Xiao Yan heard this, she stopped asking.

She began to carefully observe the corpses on the ground.

She had already felt just now that these dried corpses seemed to be somewhat abnormal.

Seeing the brother and sister so calm, Mu Tian and the others gradually calmed down as well.

And felt a burst of blushing.

It was just some dried corpses, yet they were so out of control, not even as good as the youngest Xiao Yan, it was really shouldn't be.

Just as they wanted to ask Xiao Yan what she had discovered.

Suddenly, a gloomy voice sounded.